With the enormous amounts of money being made by Blizzard, surely they can find a technological solution to this problem rather than having to go to court. Making it ‘more’ illegal won’t stop the problem, it will simply morph into a new form. When there is real money to be made off of virtual worlds, real people will try and take advantage of that.

I do have to say that Blizzard have taken multiple steps to combat this problem over the years – mass account banning, increased daily quests, alternative epic loot sources, streamlining early content etc. Fact is there are both greedy people who want to cash in on Blizzard’s success and lazy people with disposable incomes that can help make that possible.

They did WHAT?!?
Oh dear.. Blizzard is sliding down the scales of respect to EA level.. Since Bliz is being run by corporate lacky’s nowadays this shouldn’t have been that much of a surprise.. still makes me cry though..

Nobody said the virgins were female…

This case isn’t about Iraq, viruses, Chinese farmers, or even botters. This case is about cheating at a game and a misunderstanding of copyright law. Basically Blizzard has intellectual protection from people stealing the game, changing it a little and calling it World of Borecraft. It however does not protect them from another program reading information and using that to automate a process. If this case is over without appeal, it will give Blizzard and any other company the ability to dictate what you put on your computer. In the ruling of this particular case the judge said that this company “Forced people to break Blizzard’s TOS and EULA.” Obviously this case is about stripping the consumer’s rights away. If you side with Blizzard then just give your computer away now, it will be much easier than when they make it happen.

To the last message, I am conducting a legal analysis project on the illegalities of the Blizzard EULA and ToS legitimacy in its Oceanic Regions, in particular focus there misleading and deceptive conduct both externally in regards to Our Trade Practice Laws and internally in defective excution of services that impinge on an area of law called Estoppel effecting areas of contract, neligence in Torts for external effects and advertising breeches in Australia.

I would thoughly welcome any comments in regards to your thoughts or alternatively areas of concern towards the company.

Regards
Mark

blizzard wasnt losing any money because of bots, blizzard has millions of subscribers, besides if someone was botting and it affected someone else or someone else saw them then they would be reported and banned, most botters (like me) only use it to level up characters so we can play with friends

Blizzard are hiding something very well. They ban players with bots, thinking it is about copyrights. But they don’t do anything at all about ad-makers that using corpses to write adresses on the ground offending all players in capital-citys.

They have had about a year in time to come up with a solution, but nothing. Ad-makers are much more annying and violating than bots, and bots that is uman-like was not annoying at all by the way, becouse they were not noticed ingame. Only the robot-like bots were annoying.

What I dont understand is why Blizzard is letting these ad-makers compromise the copyright of the ingame-environment in front of the paying players as they do (= much worse issue than bots), as if Blizzard wants to drag down their own company-name by terrorists and then demonstrate it to the players while not doing anything about it, nor writing about the problem or wanting to solve it so the players can read it. No respect to the paying players what so ever.

(Sorry for my bad English, I’m a Wow-player from a non-englishspeaking country).